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11/26/2003 11:09:49 AM · #1 |
Greetings...
Determination
I wonder if this type of image would be eaiser to market than just the photo itself? I see these motivational posters everywhere I go. They have a few of them hanging around my workplace...
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11/26/2003 11:19:55 AM · #2 |
I think that duck is determined to drown himself..lol
Im inclined to agree on your marketing strategy though, an extra hook can definately help a sale. The layout and photo itself, are just as good as any of the posters I have seen. I say give it a go!
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11/26/2003 11:24:07 AM · #3 |
I agree with Scab, the poster looks great. However, how will it look printed in poster size. You camera certainly has a lot of mega-pixels, but professional poster prints are typically done with large format (70mm?) film to allow for the magnification.
Heck, give it a try. |
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11/26/2003 11:26:55 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by Trinch:
I agree with Scab, the poster looks great. However, how will it look printed in poster size. You camera certainly has a lot of mega-pixels, but professional poster prints are typically done with large format (70mm?) film to allow for the magnification.
Heck, give it a try. |
Unfortunatley, we don't have the option to go to a 24x36 poster size here on dpc yet. Maybe in the future... 20x30 is the best I can go on this. As for quality, I hope to find out for myself today. I ordered a 20x30 of one of my recent photos that I hope will be arriving shortly. At that point, I can tell you first hand what the quality looks like. Based on what I have heard from others, I'm expecting the quality to be great.
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11/26/2003 11:29:14 AM · #5 |
I like these... from //www.despair.com
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11/26/2003 12:16:55 PM · #6 |
Kirbic, I too love that website! Haven't visited for a while, thanks for the reminder.
John, I'd agree that the approach you've taken with the duck photo seems like a clever way of "adding value" to the duck photo without text/ border. That said the image itself doesn't strike me as being overly strongly related to the message. I think it could work really well with some of your other images though, such as the chess series...
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11/26/2003 12:22:15 PM · #7 |
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11/26/2003 12:25:04 PM · #8 |
And here is one for the rest of us:
//www.despair.com/in24x30prin.html
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11/26/2003 12:27:22 PM · #9 |
John, that is a nice photo. Did you try using brighter text?
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11/26/2003 12:28:37 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Sonifo:
John, that is a nice photo. Did you try using brighter text? |
No. I didn't want the text to be brighter than the photo. I used a sample of a more subtle color from the photo for the text.
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11/26/2003 12:37:20 PM · #11 |
Also, I think some of your metal chain/ padlock images and images incorporating the flag might work well for motivational poster prints.
To be honest, if you have the imagination to come up with appropriate messages to go with a given image (and you clearly do) I reckon this idea would add even more value to a whole lot of your images.
Can't wait to see the next such print/ poster you create.
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11/26/2003 01:44:42 PM · #12 |
i gotta say that is a bit of a stretch for a motivational picture
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11/26/2003 02:03:21 PM · #13 |
My thoughts on the keys to valuable are: the customer must percieve that they are acquiring something relatively unique. This is most often accomplished (in art) by a limited quantity, numbered, and signed by the artist. OR by the artist being very famous.
Any prints that I have been motivated to pay more than 50.00 US for, have been signed and numbered. I think it is actually the autograph that I am purchasing, with the print an asthetic bonus.
As it relates to DPC, I have long felt that limited editions, signed and numbered by the artist, would be significantly more valuable.
11x17's should bring in around 75.00 US, with very special prints of extremely limited numbers (50 or less) bringing 125 and up. Again, the personal signature is part of the value.
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11/26/2003 02:15:00 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Flash:
As it relates to DPC, I have long felt that limited editions, signed and numbered by the artist, would be significantly more valuable. |
The problem is that the idea doesn't fit into the business model. DPC Prints is a zero-inventory concept. Basically, nothing is spend until the order is placed. If they were to offer signed and numbered runs, then either the artist or DPC would have to front the printing costs and hold the photographs in inventory until they are sold. On top of that, since the printing and delivery of the photos is all outsourced, this would present an additional problem. |
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11/26/2003 05:22:55 PM · #15 |
| Or the print could be sent from the printer to the artist/photographer, signed, and then forwarded to the purchaser. Postage would be double and delivery slower, but maybe the increased price would balance these out. |
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11/26/2003 05:26:59 PM · #16 |
A possible solution to the current business plan, would be to post the maximum quantity available for printing, have DPC take the order, get it printed, forward to the photographer for signing and then forward to the customer. A week timetable should be sufficient and no inventory would have to be carried. The price point for the print would cover the additional handling.
End result, if you have one, then there are only so many out there, and if your favorite photographer "makes it", then you will be in possession of a "valued" and sought after piece of art, making the resulting value higher.
Just a thought.
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11/26/2003 06:02:31 PM · #17 |
Coolhar,
I like your thinking.
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11/27/2003 02:07:30 AM · #18 |
I use that bordered/poster style for most of my prints anyway ... but I can't get too many of them up to poster size. This one I got up to 16x24 though ...
Blaze of Glory |
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